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by auxym 11y ago
Ha, I work for BigCo, and we use Kronos for timesheets. We recently transitioned to win7 (from XP), and to get Kronos working again we have to run some virtualization app (citrix maybe? can't remember right now, definitely a vmware pro
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by auxym 11y ago
How It's Made is decent. Not much actual engineering talk though.
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by auxym 11y ago
This is awesome! Unfortunately, my paying corporate desk-engineer job offers no opportunity, but as a grad student I did quite a bit of laser-cutting-prototyping (mostly acrylic and delrin). At one point I searched around quite a bit for re
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by auxym 11y ago
Python 3 really does help with this. You rarely need to use encode and decode, it's done automatically when opening a file in text mode. You do have to specify the encoding you want though.
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by auxym 11y ago
As a (junior) mechanical engineer, I'd like to work in a BigCo that invests in big R&D. Basically, I'd like to work in the 70s (or so).
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by auxym 11y ago
Québec is only receiving equalization because of the money AB and SK are (were) making off oil. Given that even Ontario is receiving equalization, and that Quebec's payment is about half (per capita) than NB and PEI's payment, I&#
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by auxym 11y ago
You know, "the economy" does not have to be this deity that you absolutely have to sacrifice every aspect of culture, history, socializing, and every part of living an enjoyable life to. Québec still has the third highest GDP in t
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by auxym 11y ago
As pedalpete mentioned, most of the time you'll want to do the bulk of the prority research yourself before you start costing lawyer and/or patent agent* time. We submitted a few patent applications during my master's researc
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by auxym 11y ago
I'm Québécois but only a lowly engineer; Not sure which law applies, but agricultural monopolies are pretty common here. Milk and dairy products is the other well known one. So much that the productions quotas are the single most valua
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by auxym 11y ago
I'm sure you could, if needed pick up specific things as you go from the web or a used copy of a good basic linalg textbook.
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by auxym 11y ago
Can't say I've had a good experience with ubuntu on a laptop. Very buggy with sleep/wakes. Often wifi and/or sound refuses to work after a wake up. Lately it's refusing to go to sleep at all when on battery but not
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by auxym 11y ago
Recent mechanical engineering grad here, I use my (new model) 35s on a daily basis. Despite being somewhat cheaply built ('5' button broke early, still works but now wiggles around), I couldn't do without physical buttons and
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by auxym 11y ago
I used moderncv with slight modifications for my last cv.
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by auxym 11y ago
I used Zotero, mostly for it's automatic database filling feature (eg from a journal website). I sort-of classified papers in in a directory-like structure by topic. When it came time to find stuff, the search worked pretty well, consi
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by auxym 11y ago
There's also this TED talk which is interesting http://www.ted.com/talks/edith_widder_how_we_found_the_giant...
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by auxym 11y ago
Boris Vian was an engineer working for the AFNOR (french normalization body), which he found boring out of his mind. The first draft of L'Écume des Jours was written of AFNOR engineering graph paper.
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by auxym 11y ago
Matplotlib can produce high quality plots. But it requires lots of code, and hours of digging around the API docs and tweaking subclasses.
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by auxym 11y ago
As a mech engineer doing mostly structural work these days, you are definitely solving an important problem, one which I both witness and experience first hand every single day. Excel is used a lot, but it's error prone and sucks for c
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by auxym 11y ago
Tried it on my GF's laptop (mine runs linux), which has a first gen core i5 from 2008ish. Everything was fine, except the HDMI port wouldn't work anymore. Apparently a bug in Intel's driver and they have aanounced that they w
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Bibulous: drop-in replacement for BibTeX that uses templates(github.com)
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by auxym 11y ago
I'm not sure the author is aware of this story, but he cites the possible confusion with "Dolt" as the reason for naming his project "doit" in lowercase: http://pydoit.org/faq.html#why-is-doit-writte
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by auxym 11y ago
I was looking for a build-tool like system to "compile" my thesis: run data analysis scripts, output figures, do some munging on latex source and bibtex references, and finally run the latex compile. After trying a few and fightin
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Doit: bringing the power of build-tools to execute any kind of task(pydoit.org)
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Doit: bringing the power of build-tools to execute any kind of task(pydoit.org)
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The only must-read is probably PEP8. Otherwise, why are you interested in PEPs? For learning about language features, introductory posts on blogs and such are usually better, especially for a beginner. PEPs read more like a spec.
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by auxym 11y ago
I went to school at a Canadian university with a coop program. Engineering coop interns were regularly paid upwards of 20$/h. But yeah, as with all remuneration, it's always very dependent on your area.
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by auxym 11y ago
That's a good point. As a second suggestion, I think I liked Dive Into Python's example of a mp3-file metadata parser, from way back when I learned python http://www.diveintopython.net/object_oriented_framework&#x2
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by auxym 11y ago
I've tried running, lifting and other training routines and I just can't keep it up. I don't have the discipline to keep up something I find so boring. No disrespect meant to lifters&runners, quite the contrary, I envy yo
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That pixar shot looks awesome!
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by auxym 11y ago
Thanks a lot :) Mostly confirms what I was thinking.

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